Support – Advice & Insights

The 10 Minute Interview Edge How to Walk Into Your Interview Looking Like the Future Practice Manager

If you have been invited to interview for a Practice Manager role, the practice already believes you could be a good fit.

How to Become an Expert in Your Optical Career

Most careers in optics are not limited by clinical ability. They are limited by mindset.

Spend enough time in practice and you will see it clearly. Two optometrists can graduate with similar grades, complete the same pre-reg year, and start in comparable roles. Five years later, one is leading clinics, mentoring juniors and shaping the direction of the practice. The other is still hesitant, doubting decisions, avoiding new challenges and quietly believing they are not quite ready for more.

The Four Quiet Traits That Shape Strong Careers

Every so often I come across an idea that has been around for thousands of years yet still explains modern working life remarkably well. Stoic philosophy is one of those ideas. Long before corporate leadership books and workplace coaching, the Stoics described four simple virtues that they believed formed the foundation of a good life: wisdom, courage, justice, and temperance.

What We Still Get Wrong About People, Work, and Wellbeing

Nearly a century ago, a leading psychiatrist wrote about human care in a way that still feels uncomfortable today. Not because it is outdated, but because it is so simple that it exposes how far we drift from what actually works.

Do you feel supported, or just managed

At first glance, this sounds like a question about leadership style. It isn’t. It’s really about how it feels to turn up each day in a practice where care, time, and commercial reality all lean on you at once, and whether the people around you make that weight lighter or simply keep it moving. It’s not about whether things are organised, or whether the diary is full, or whether targets are being met. It’s about whether anyone is actually standing with you while all of that happens.